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There's an outdoor pool up the street from my house, and the swim teachers there are pleasantly leathery middle-aged guys who like to play Eagles…

Ariana Grande’s presence is otherworldly. It feels electric being in the same room with the formidable singer who has time and time again told her…

Dio was the first concert I ever went to, and the only one my dad ever took me to.

There are a million theories as to when exactly punk was born. Some say it was the moment when Richard Hell first used a safety…

The spectacle of the annual Governors Ball doesn’t lie in the performances. It’s in the swaths of neon-clad teens trekking across the RFK bridge from…

After noting that she just got back from an international tour, Kacey Musgraves shot the Governors Ball crowd a mile-wide smile, one of many, and…

Brockhampton have already taken over the world. Not too long ago, they were just a bunch of kids from Texas chatting on a Kanye West…

If you take a look at the lineup poster for Governors Ball 2019, you'll notice there aren't a lot of big rock names in the…

For all the institutions, fanbases, and cash-hungry industries that Napster tore apart, it's easy to forget that the file-sharing service -- the preliminary beta service…

You have a right to be nervous about Rocketman. The Elton John biopic arrives at a time in which critical stock in rockstar biopics has…

Woodstock 50 is imploding before our eyes, but the latest attempt to harvest summer of '69 nostalgia was always going to be a gamble. Obtaining…

Admit it: You didn't expect Mac DeMarco to stick around this long. That's not a thinly veiled reference to the accidental indie scion's smoke-'em-while-you-got-'em tendencies,…

When Charli XCX and Troye Sivan dropped their collaborative single "1999" last fall, I didn't think much of it. (Initially, anyway.) Coming off of an…

Shortly after the 2017 suicides of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, the air was thick with talk of clinical depression, artists and…

The Taylor Swift I love loves specifics: old scarves that remind you of innocence and 20 stitches in a hospital room and screaming, crying, perfect…